Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
HAROLD WILSONGiven a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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If we don’t give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don’t use many.
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